This isn’t going to move the needle at all. Most normal people don’t give a shit, and unfortunately the normal people out number us by a lot.

You can make single shot weapons from pretty much 100% plastic with just like a nail as the firing pin. But those aren’t really effective weapons at all, and you can make a better shotgun with some pipes from the hardware store.

Even if you could make fully functional firearms with 3D printers, this is still stupid. 3D printers for hobbyists were originally all hand built with common electronic parts and if more states pass regulations like this, DIY is going to be the new trend again where everybody builds their own printers instead of buying one and it’ll just get easier and easier and the government won’t be able to regulate that at all.

And, honestly, I’m all for that future, and sort of excited for it. The regulations are moronic and dumb, but just like digital surveillance and information suppression laws like age verification, it’s just going to make the darknet and none regulatable things more popular, which is great, in my opinion. I yearn for the day where the commoner gets online and Tor or I2P is their first choice of connection. Where the government has no control over the citizen and what they think, do, or say online or in their own private life.

I will never understand hexbear excessive nsfw

Na, when I’m sick I just veg out 24/7 man.

Brighter and punchy, for the cherry blossom one it brought out even more of that pinkish cast and I like it, looks good! I’d love to do my all my own lab work someday, when I have the time and some cash maybe I will! Its probably even cheaper long term since developing and getting scans is about the same price as the film itself for me.

You’ve got good tastes 😉, love yours!

That’s awesome you scan your own negatives. Something I’ve wanted to try but haven’t because I don’t have a nice digital camera. I just get back TIFFs from my lab and sometimes don’t change anything, and if I do, it’s pretty much just adjusting the tone curve before exporting to a more compact format. Doing all the color editing and stuff sounds pretty stressful to me though lol. Probably harder to perfect than shooting on film by itself.

I think the vision 3 shots you have posted so far are a tiny bit more muted vs this porta shot, and have a bit of a pinkish “Etheral” vibe to them. If that makes any sense haha.

Cool! Interesting how different the overall tone is compared to your Kodak Vision 3 500T shots. I’ve never actually shot on anything but Porta, but I should try some others cause I dig the vibe from your vision 3 photos you posted recently.

Good shot! I have a photo you reminded me I should post of a man reading a book under a cherry blossom tree!

Thanks! I wouldn’t say more so than my other lenses. I’m not very quick on the draw with focusing in general, and miss some good shots because of it. Something I need to get better at.

Someone more knowledgeable than me please correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think any of the original private investors have been capable of selling anything and I don’t think they will be able to for another 30 or 60 days.

And IMO, I think Elon is thoroughly convinced that he will have another Tesla stock situation on his hand, where it generally keeps going up unreasonably for many many years.

Couldn’t of said it better myself, this man is a true American hero.

Oh for sure. I’m just curious what dosage folks are taking around here.

I’m trying out Zed

They are already there in many ways and exceeded how bad America is in some ways too. They have been speedrunning the digital dystopia aspect, america ain’t far behind though.

As far as I understand they’ve done a significant amount of work related to HLS. It’s not nearly as public facing as starship but they have crossed a lot of milestones that are part of their Nasa contract. Including a lot of work on orbital refueling, the HLS landing engines, and the crew version of starship.

Of course, this shit is still multiple years away so the meme holds true.

I just like people watching, and also have pretty extreme flight anxiety and motion sickness so I may have resting bitch face while I watch you pass. I’m sure me vomiting later in the flight is more of a disturbance than my face though.

Yea I hope this spurs more investment into Chinese llm labs, or really any country doing open models (pretty much only china). The united states like normal cannot be a trusted and reliable partner. I’m also against lobotomizing llms in general In the name of “safety”.

I mean, like I said, chinese models are nearly just as capable and they will forever be substantially cheaper simply because anybody with a server can run them. So your logic just doesn’t pan out. Unless America can maintain a sufficient advantage in the technological capabilities, hopefully that doesn’t happen.

I already agreed with you that Americans will raise prices in newer models (not old ones), but it doesn’t really matter if the competition is almost as good and 100x cheaper.

I don’t think that’s the plan and it won’t work if it is, believe it or not I think these corporate soul suckers know that.

Chinese models are literally 75x cheaper than frointer usa models with 85% of the capabilities. Chinese’s models have continually been 3 - 6 months behind frointer models. This will continue to be the case and since Chinese models are generally open anyone with a big server can run them and sell tokens, it’s gonna stay cheap.

I’m pretty sure most LLM providers are making enough money to profit on selling infrence. They only are in the negative from massive spending on hiring the best talent and research/development into new models and the associated hardware/data center build outs to train those new models.

The truth in my opinion is these companies are confident that if they spend enough they will reach a critical threshold where llms are actually intelligent and useful, and that is what they are betting on. Being the first company to make real “Ai” that can self improve.

I’m sure OpenAI and Anthropic will try to charge more because they are soul sucking capitalists but that will only be viable as long as they are sufficiently in the lead from open weight models. I think Anthroptic has already 2x api pricing for their newest hype beast end of the world its so scary advanced Fable 5 model.